Paul Cavanagh
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Cavanagh (8 December 1888 – 15 March 1964) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1928 and 1959. Cavanagh was born in Chislehurst, Kent, and attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Cavanagh studied law in England, earning a master of arts degree at Cambridge. A newspaper article published 17 June 1931, reported, "It is on record that Cavanagh won high honors in mathematics and history." Cavanagh practised "for several years" before he changed professions. He went to Canada "for a year of sightseeing and wandering" before he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. After serving in World War I, he returned to Canada, where he practised law, including revising the statutes of Alberta, but eventually went back to England to practise law. Cavanagh went onto the stage after a stroke of bad luck in 1924 caused him to lose his savings, and later he went into films. In 1926, Cavanagh lost $22,000 in one evening on a roulette wheel in Monte Carlo. An observer offered to provide a letter "to some of my theatrical acquaintances" in London, England. Those contacts led to Cavanagh's role in It Pays to Advertise. Cavanagh first film contract and film came in 1929 with Paramount Pictures. Cavanagh died In London from a heart attack in 1964, aged 75.
Born: December 7, 1888
Place of Birth: Chislehurst, Kent [now in Bromley, London], England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Kenneth Drake
as Inspector Herbert Saunders
as Edgar Ferrell
as Horace Selkirk
as Dr. James Brady
as Sugar Daddy
as Cooper
as Neil Frazer
as Insp. D.N. Hedges
as Harrington
as Lord Bonnivet
as Sir Edward Scott
as Sir Henry Clinton
as Duc de Latour
as Tobiah
as Dean Cosgrove
as General Melville
as Dr. Henry Giraud
as Col. Tucker
as John H. Tunstall
as Signor Alberto Di Gambetta
as Cavenly, advisor to Prince James
as Professor Banning
as Owen Vail
as Col. Heisler
as Lord Robert Clive
as Colonel (uncredited)
as Mr. Stryver
as Sidney Wallace
as John Kolvac
as Dianza
as Edmond Dureau
as John Carver
as Jeremy Smithers
as Sir Guy de Claremont
as Inspector Stoddard
as Lt. Col. Caesar von Hofaker
as Dr. James Brady
as Klaas Van Gelder
as Edmond de Maletroit
as Roland Paul
as Todd Williams
as Richelieu
as Two-to-One Thompson
as Hagen
as Sir Giles
as Col. Eric Thorne
as Marquis D'Andervilliers
as Dr. Blucher
as Dr. Menzies
as Sir John Sedley
as Rick Barrett
as Dr. Berwick (uncredited)
as Victor Kranish
as Victor Wright
as Clive Russell
as Jeffrey Caldwell
as Bart McClelland
as Rogers
as Sir George Fenwick
as Simon Merrivale
as Dr. Henry Latimer
as Mr. Selworth
as Roger Pelham
as Lord Penrose
as Sheik Ahmid Bel Nor
as Dr. Dorn
as John 'Jack' Shagrue
as Sir James Patridge
as Cmdr. Charles Brennan
as John Crispin
as Group Captain
as Capt. Duncan MacNeil-Fraser
as Joseph 'Joe' Reynolds
as Cap Rawlston
as Max Armand
as Bill Rodgers
as John R. Banton
as Mr. Franklin Cooper
as English Eddie Morton
as John Morley
as Ryan
as Inspector Gary
as Charlie Cortland
as Martin Deering
as Count Peter Alvinczy
as Robert Godfrey
as Edward Carrington
as Leonard Crecy
as Lavassor
as Max Bernard, a.k.a. Sir Nigel Crane
as Alvin Ritchie
as Martin Arlington
as Governor Dick Crawford
as Thomas MacDonald
as Wylie Thornton
as Prince Keri of Zalgar
as Ronnie Sanderson
as Gray Meredith
as Major Hugo Beresford
as Henry - Earl of Kerhill
as Robert Maury
as Reginald Armstrong
as Sir Wilfred Drake
as Ronald Killkerry
as Grand Duke Paul
as Capt. Orloff
as Dave Stewart
as Chamberlin Jarvis
as Ted
as Prince of Savonia
as Lenane